Peerless Gallery will host a one-night exhibit highlighting Nebraska women artists. It is co-organized by writer/blogger Sally Deskins. Deskins’ blog, Les Femmes Folles, is dedicated to regional female artists in all mediums and this show reflects that interest. The exhibit is curated by local artist/instructors...

The Artist Co-op’s 2011 Emerging Artists Exhibit, on view through July 31st, offers an unusual interactive benefit. The public is invited to vote for one of six artists, with the winner receiving a three-month mentorship beginning in August. Votes will be tallied July 30, and the winner announced at the closing reception, July 31st 1-4 p.m.

The artist-run cooperative gallery has been selling artwork in the Old...

Artist Tim Guthrie, well known for his contentious exhibit at Bemis Underground earlier this year, Extraordinary Rendition, is fresh from his June trip to Uganda with John O'Keefe, Carol Zuegner and 14 of their Creighton University students. They recorded for a mini-documentary about work being done to help war refugees. Before he leaves for his annual visiting artist position in Lake Tahoe, he visits with an...

University of Nebraska-Omaha professor of art Christina Renfer Vogel shows Omahans the breadth of her work at the Birdhouse Collectible.Exhibiting “snapshots” including many of her striking yet minimalistic recently completed small painting portraits...

Cool off with some free poetry at the Shoot Your Mouth Off III poetry slam this Thursday at The Hideout (320 S 72nd St). Check myspace.com/shootyourmouthoff for interviews with features and more information. The event is free and starts at 9 pm.

If you’re more of the outside poetry type with a very high heat tolerance, swing by 77th and Main in downtown Ralston for Tunes in Independence Square, a weekly event...

July 20Hellogoodbye
Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St.
7:30 p.m. $15.waitingroomlounge.com
The California-based act released their breakthrough album Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! in 2006 and has since parted with their old record label, retooled their lineup and are ready to perform their newest album Would It Kill You. The band will perform with artists like A Great Big Pile Of Leaves, Cymbal Rush and...